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...pair estimates that there are 28 million battered wives in the country, they put the figure for battered husbands at 12 million. A beaten husband has some extra problems, says Levy. "Should he take the abuse or fight back? Whether he is a sniveling mouse or a Neanderthal brute, society will reject...
Leading the Longhorn attack is Fullback Earl Campbell, who plows through the line as if he were walking through a turnstile, gained 1,522 yards in the first ten games, and is a strong candidate to win the Heisman Trophy. To take advantage of Campbell's brute (6 ft. 1 in., 220 lb.) strength and the sizzling speed of Wide Receiver Johnny ("Lam") Jones-a 1976 Olympic Gold Medalist in the 400-meter relay and, according to Akers, "the fastest football player in the world"-the new coach substituted a big-play, I-formation offense for the Royal Wishbone...
...raaah!" then goose-stepped smartly across the ancient cobblestones outside the Kremlin. Gun salutes echoed around the snow-shrouded, onion-shaped spires of St. Basil's Cathedral. Unmistakably, the theme of the three-hour parade that marked last week's 60th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution was brute strength...
This $8 million epic, Bertolucci's first effort since Last Tango in Paris, is a fabulous wreck. Abundantly flawed, maddeningly simpleminded, 1900 nonetheless possesses more brute poetic force than any other film since Coppola's similarly operatic Godfather II. If Bertolucci irritates as much as he dazzles, he never bores: his extravagant failure has greater staying power than most other directors' triumphs...
...first there reigns a state of newborn innocence, snuffed out suddenly by the burning of a neighbor's child in a plane crash. "God is a brute and traitor, abandoning us to time," writes Dillard. She despairs of earthly happiness: "You can get caught holding one end of a love, when your father drops, and your mother; when a land is lost, or a time, and your friend blotted out, gone . . ." But in the end, she witnesses a baptism that heralds her own reawakening of faith. One Christian sect, she reads, posits a substance known as "Holy the Firm...